Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Rolling spawn and natural hybridization.

Brook, good feedback, this is helpful.

Favor to request: Can you please create a post and outline your fishery, goals, and management strategies for us? From what I can take from your post, you have a cool water species fishery with WE/SMB and panfish species of RES and HBG. While we've recommended this often on the forum, you're one of the only people I know who have implemented it to my knowledge.

Few other questions:

Do you have YP? If so, how are they performing competing with HBG for forage?

How is management of HBG? Are you limited gape predators able to keep up?

Are your SMB pellet trained - do you feed?

Have you experienced hybridization of your RES/HBG? I have some of these I suspect, would like to learn of your experiences here and review photos if you have any to post.

Sorry for all the questions - if you have time and feel so compelled please clue us in. This would be important science for the forum, and I'm working on establishing several fisheries and am reluctant to recommend HBG stocking in similar situations as I lack the experience to predict their impact on fishery.